Vax and Percy: Day 1, backdated to 3/25/19

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Twinswap Plot, Day 1 Vax returns to his room after meeting with Professor Xavier and talks with Percy.



Vax had yet to recover from the shock of it. First the switching into his sister's body, then speaking to the Professor, only to find out that it could be weeks before they came up with a viable solution. He stumbled, numbly, up to the door of his room and stared at it. The Professor had cleared them to sleep in their own beds, despite the change in gender, but it still felt strange to Vax. And, of course, Percy was on the other side of that door, and Vax had no idea what to do with that.

He took a slow, deep breath, then pushed it open, closing it soundly behind him.

Percy immediately shot to his feet when the door opened. His eyebrows lifted when it was Vex, not Vax, who came into the room, immediately knowing what that meant, but he quickly schooled his expression into neutrality. Vax would be worried enough already as is; He didn’t need Percy adding to it any.

“Any news?” Percy asked as he crossed the room to his boyfriend.

Vax stared at Percy for a moment. Fuck, but he wanted to go to him. To fold around him. To do anything but stay pressed up against the door like he was. With...breasts, and everything else. "They're searching for an answer," he answered, trying not to puff his chest out in a huge sigh. 

Oh. Vax was worse than Percy had thought he’d be. He looked just…miserable. “Hey.” He caught one of Vax’s hands in his and used the other to cup his cheek. “We’ll figure it out. Everything will be okay, dear.”

"It's not as bad as all that," Vax sighed, but squeezed Percy's hand nonetheless. "Honestly, it's almost comical. If I don't look too hard at... all of it." 

“Maybe spend the remaining time squinting then,” Percy tried to joke.

"You're terrible at this, you realize," Vax sighed at him. "We can't...we can't do anything, you know. It's her body. I don't want to...to..." 

Percy looked horrified by the thought. “Of course not. Why would—” A frown creased his brow and now he did look worried. “You do know I love you for more than that, don’t you? Dearest, don’t get me wrong, the sex is incredible, but, in your own body or not, if you told me you didn’t want to have it again ever, I’d still be here. I’m always going to be here.”

A smile tugged at Vax's (Vex's) lips, and he (she) nodded. "I know. It's good to hear, though. I just wanted to warn you what we're in for. I don't know how long this is going to go on. I can't even get her powers to work, let alone figure out how to reverse what she did." 

“However long it takes, we’ll figure something out. If not with Vex’s mutation, than someone else’s.” Percy put his arms loosely around Vax’s waist. It was narrower than he was used to with curving hips that he hadn’t accounted for and needed to adjust his hold to accommodate. “Honestly, it’s just good to hear your voice. Vex sounds like you, but she doesn’t sound like you if that makes any sense.”

Something began to unknot in Vax's chest as Percival pulled him close, and he closed his eyes, just breathing in his scent, listening to his words. "Fuck me, this is so messed up." 

Percy rested his forehead against Vax’s. “It really is. But, it will be alright, dearest.”

Vax huffed a soft sound. "You're taking this really well, you asshole." 

And when Percy panicked, Vax somehow stay levelheaded. It’s just what you did for someone you cared about. Even it it was strange seeing the slant of Vax’s smile on a different mouth and hugging a body that was soft and curvy instead of lean and lithe. Even if, truthfully, he was a little worried.

“I am the worst,” Percy agreed, but there was nothing but warmth in his voice. “I’m taking this well because I’m not worried. You’re still here. You’re still you, even if you’re in someone else’s body. Plus, think of the pranks you could pull.”

"Vex would slaughter me, and you know it," Vax complained, pulling out of Percy's arms and going to flop face down on the bed. "Not that I don't want to have a little fun with it, because, fuck yeah, I do. But there's that whole, weird, 'she's my sister' thing I gotta worry about." 

“Since when has Vex’s wrath stopped you from pulling a prank?” Percy sat down on the bed beside Vax, and was suddenly struck by the realization that sleeping arrangements were going to be...awkward. They’d probably need to pull their beds apart, and they hadn’t done that since they first pushed them together.

Percy rested a hand on Vax’s back. “Pranks aside, how are you holding up?” He’d been so focused on reassuring Vax, that he realized he hadn’t even asked that yet which was a failure on his part. It should have been the first thing out of his mouth.

"I don't know yet," Vax admitted, staring at the opposite wall. "But if you're asking me if I'm all here? I think so. It could have been worse, yeah? But I think it's all me in here.”

“No, I was just asking how you were doing.” Percy lay back on the bed, his legs dangling over the edge, and turned his head to look at Vax. Vex’s eyes were the same warm shade of brown as Vax’s. “It’s okay if you’re not okay. You don’t have to be.”

"Well, would anyone really be okay?" Vax muttered, finally looking down at his sister's hands once again. He fit all wrong in this body, and as much as it could have been worse - even being in someone else's body, being in Vex's was odd on all kinds of levels. Up to and including the one secret he was still keeping from Percival...that Vex had shared Vax's feelings for him. Maybe she still did, he didn't know. But being like this, in her body, close to his boyfriend? It just felt...wrong. 

“No, I suppose not.” Percy watched Vax quietly, wishing there was something more he could do for him. “Maybe it will help to change out of Vex’s clothes into something more familiar?” He’d been told it helped people struggling with gender dysphoria. It was a long shot, but maybe it would do Vax’ildan some good too?

That was the best idea that Vax had heard all day, and he stood, reaching for the edge of his sister's shirt before pausing. He turned toward Percy and smiled sideways. "Close your eyes, will you? I know we've all seen each other at one point or another, but I'd feel better if you weren't watching Vex undress." 

Percy dutifully closed his eyes, even going so far as covering them with his hands. “Let me know if there’s anything I can do to help.” He realized how that sounded and looked incredibly uncomfortable, his cheeks going pink. “With other things. Not with the undressing. I can ask Shaun if I can bunk with him and Molly for the time being.”

“No,” Vax told him as he attempted to struggle with the bra. “I want to stay here with you. And to be honest, if this wasn’t someone else’s body, I wouldn’t mind trying to fool around with you like this.”

Though they were hidden beneath his hands, Percy’s eyebrows lifted. “Really?” But then he gave a conceding nod. “I’d probably do the same.”

Vax looked back, blinking at him. "Really?" 

“Why not?” Percy replied with a shrug.

Vax mourned the fact that he was in his sister's body. He never would have thought that Percival would be open enough to trying something like that... and here was his chance and there was no way he would take it. He sighed a little to himself, then wriggled into sweat pants that fit a little oddly, but didn't fall down or anything. "You surprise me every day, you know that?" 

“Do I?” Percy smiled as if pleased with himself. “I rather like that.”

Percy switched his hands for an arm across his closed eyes, and shifted some to get more comfortable on the bed. The room was quiet but for the soft movements of Vax changing and there was something nice about the silence, an ease almost despite the awkwardness of the situation they found themselves in.

Vax finally managed to get into one of his t-shirts and a pair of sweats, then sat carefully on the bed beside him, feeling a little more at ease, though admittedly not a lot. He started to place a hand on Percy's thigh, then stopped himself. "You like that you surprise me?" 

At the shift of the mattress, Percy uncovered and opened his eyes. He put his arm behind his head instead and gave Vax a smile. “I do.”

Well, it was going to be a real test of fortitude not to kiss that face for however long it took for his sister to find a solution. Vax stared at him for a moment, just soaking in the sight of him, drinking all of him in. Percival, for all that he could get caught up in his work and act like a complete bookworm sometimes, also had these moments where he unknowingly posed like a sexy motherfucker, and it absolutely destroyed his boyfriend when he did. "God damnit.”

Giving Vax a confused look, Percy asked, “What?”

"You really don't know, do you?" Vax sighed, a small grin on his - his sister's lips. 

Percy regretted that he couldn't kiss Vax for that fond exasperation in his voice. “Apparently not. Should I guess?”

"You fucker," Vax breathed, reaching out to brush slender fingers over Percy's lips. "You don't know unbearably sexy you are." 

That surprised a laugh out of Percy. “Perhaps.” He was well aware he was handsome. Good genetics had done him wonders. But, sexy was a word only Vax applied to him, and ‘unbearably’ was certainly a new one. It was strange, though, hearing it in Vex’s voice, even if the words were all Vax. Her hands were softer too, missing the callouses he’d come to love. “Care to enlighten me?”

"The minute they get me my old body back, absolutely. Multiple times, in fact," Vax smirked. 

“Promises, promises,” Percy joked, smirking right back at Vax. “If I was a crueler man, I’d figure out all the things that press your buttons, and tease you with them until you do.”

"Dick," Vax muttered at him with a slight shake of his head. Vex'halia's hair was longer than his, and it was a new sensation to have push the weight away from his chin or over one shoulder - similar, but not entirely like his own. 

Percy stretched slowly causing his neatly pressed shirt to wrinkle and bunch, then loosened his tie. “I might be.”

Vax'ildan watched for a moment, feeling his sister's body flush a little, and he had to look away, laughing. "Maybe I'd better sleep somewhere else tonight.”

Percy smiled at the laughter. The whole situation was still absolutely fucked, but at least, for the moment, Vax was better than he had been when he’d first walked into the room. “No, no, I’ll behave,” he said, laughter in his own voice as he sat up, then crossed his heart. “Vox Machina’s honor.”

"Good," Vax breathed out, then turned to drop onto his back on the bed, staring at the ceiling. "Because I really do not want to go knocking on my sister's door right now." 

Percy took Vax’s—Vex’s—hand in his, lacing their fingers. “You’re not going anywhere.”

Vax tightened his fingers with Percy's and took a deep breath, nodding. "Except, hopefully, my own body."